BJP leaders in Nadia started visiting post offices from Monday to counter Trinamul’s attempts to stop deliveries of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s enrolment letters for the Ayushman Bharat health scheme.

“You are all central employees. The government has assigned you a job in public interest for the welfare of the poor. So, you should do your job. Being the party at the Centre, we will extend our support,” BJP Nadia (north) president Mahadeb Sarkar told the staff at Krishnagar head post office.

On Saturday, around 200 Trinamul activists led by MLA and Nadia chief Gourishankar Dutta had threatened to shut the post office down unless the deliveries of the letters was stopped. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has said Bengal will pull out of the scheme as the Centre was trying to take all credit for the jointly funded programme.

Sarkar and other BJP leaders said they would visit post offices in the district and homes to inform people about the “Trinamul conspiracy to deny them the scheme”.